The annual Emmy Awards® show will take place on September 14, 2025. The big winners in 2024 were Hacks, Shōgun, and Baby Reindeer. This year, Hacks has returned with 14 nominations, but the most nominated shows are Severance (27 nominations), The Penguin (24 nominations), The White Lotus (23 nominations), and The Studio (23 nominations).

As usual, the awards ceremony will take place in the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Viewers at home can watch the show live at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT on CBS or Paramount+ with Showtime. Alternatively, you can stream it on Paramount+ beginning the next day.

Here’s everything you need to know to get ready for the 77th Emmys®!

Host

The evening’s host is comedian Nate Bargatze. The Nashville-based performer is known for stand-up specials including The Tennessee Kid andThe Greatest Average American.

As host of Saturday Night Live in October 2023 and October 2024, Bargatze played George Washington in sketches about creating a revolutionary and distinctively American identity, founded on a nonsensical system of weights and measures and highly arbitrary variety of the English language.

Bargatze has been lauded as “the nicest man in stand-up.” His latest comedy special, Your Friend, Nate Bargatze, is up for three Emmys®: Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded), Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special, and Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming.

Award Nominees

Although we have been enjoying the latest season of Hacks, as well as many other wonderful shows, we have time to cover only a few of the award nominees. Here’s the full list, but we hope we can help you get up to speed!

In Dan Erickson’s Severance, the employees at Lumon have to undergo a surgical procedure to separate their work persona from the rest of their identity. But things go terribly wrong when the “innies” and “outies” find ingenious ways of communicating with one another, as in the case of Mark Scout (Adam Scott) and his team.

Severance has 27 nominations for awards, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Adam Scott), Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Britt Lower), Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman, and John Turturro), and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Patricia Arquette).

In Lauren LeFranc’s The Penguin, the notorious Batman villain (Colin Farrell) conspires with crime family scion Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) to gain control of Gotham’s underworld. You might find it difficult to recognize Farrell, though: His amazing prosthetics took THREE HOURS to apply every day!

The Penguin has 24 nominations for awards, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie (Colin Farrell), Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie (Cristin Milioti), Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie (Deirdre O’Connell), and Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup.

In Evan Goldberg, Alex Gregory, and Peter Huyck’s The Studio, Hollywood appears in a funhouse mirror as Matt Remick (Seth Rogen) tries to lead the fictional Continental Studios to artistic and commercial success. Unfortunately yet hilariously, the task turns out to be more complicated than Remick imagined.

The Studio has 23 nominations for awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Seth Rogen), Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (Ike Barinholtz), and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (Kathryn Hahn and Catherine O’Hara).

In Mike White’s The White Lotus, hotel worker Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) takes a well-deserved vacation to Thailand, only to run into expat Greg (Jon Gries), living there incognito after murdering Belinda’s massage client Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge). As usual, employees and patrons of the White Lotus careen toward disaster, but Belinda might get away alive, if not unscathed.

The White Lotus has 23 nominations for awards, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs, and Sam Rockwell), and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell, and Aimee Lou Wood).

Let’s Enjoy the Show!

Those are the most nominated shows of the season! But how can we keep counting nominations when there’s so much great television to watch?

That includes the 77th Emmy Awards®, so please join us in thanking the organizers and the members of the Television Academy. Finally, let’s wish the best of luck to all the nominees!